Page 45 of Hiding From Laughter

He was still naughty.

But maybe he was funny too.

“And see? You didn’t have to put your toysdown.” My naughty man knew they were ’portant. “More kisses for my cutie.”

Sneaky.

Neck kisses.

My naughty man was sneaky and made melaugh.

“I heard that.” My naughty man smiledbigger and bigger as he took off my diaper. “Such a good boy. I’m so proud ofyou.”

Big ’wards.

Gonna get bigbig’wards.

“I’m going to hold your arms as you get inthe tub. Your hands are full and I don’t want you to fall.” My naughty man wasbig careful as I stepped. “Perfect. Good boy. Now sit down slowly. You reallydon’t want me worried about you drowning in the tub.”

No.

Bad.

My naughty man worried.

Big careful.

Slowly.

Slowly.

Ha.

My naughty man laughed.

“Yes. I can see you’re being very careful.”My naughty man laughed. “Nut.”

No.

Monkey.

Ha.

My naughty man laughed again.

“You look like one of those monkeys thatlike the hot springs. Like the ones we saw in the documentary.” My naughty manlaughed when I leaned back like the monkeys. “Yep. My silly monkey.”

Ha.

Ha.

“You sit carefully and I’m going to get therest of the toys.” My naughty man made more happy sounds when I showed him myspecial toys. “Yeah, you’ve got toys but I need some too.”

Hmm.

Okay.

“Thank you.” My naughty man was silly andshook his head. “Since you have the elephant, I’m going to get the monkey. Iknow I saw one in there.”

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